Hong Kong SPACs: Five Things You Need To Know

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) introduced significant reform of the global tax transparency framework in November 2023 through the introduction of a new Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) and an update of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), the existing tax transparency standard for the exchange of financial account information.

Rule Requirements, Notifiable Transactions, Connected Transactions, Issues of Securities by Listed Issuers

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Tests for high net worth professional investors in Hong Kong are likely to become easier 16 December 2011.

For a fund manager wishing to establish and manage a hedge fund in Asia, Hong Kong has traditionally been a leading choice. It is the financial centre of the Greater China region.

Hong Kong is developing a comprehensive licensing framework for virtual asset activities, creating distinct regimes for virtual asset dealing services...

On 20 June 2025, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Stock Exchange") published a listing decision LD139-2025 (the "Listing Decision").

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC") is an independent statutory body established under the Securities and Futures Ordinance ("SFO") to administer the securities and futures markets including the licensing of market participants and the regulation of offers of securities.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced on 3 November 2025 that licensed Virtual Asset Trading Platform Operators...

Alibaba, which operates one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms, became, in 2019, the first overseas issuer to complete a dual secondary listing on the HKSE.

Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement...

On December 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the BIOSECURE Act as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which is the U.S. Congress's annual defense policy bill.

On 30 September 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) circulated for public comment the Measures on the Administration of Data Security in the Industry and Information Technology Sector

Japan is widely perceived as one of the least corrupt countries in the world. In 2020, Transparency International ranked Japan as the 19th least corrupt country out of 180 countries in...

A recent proposal issued by Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, along with various other current private- and public-sector initiatives, signals a strong interest in promoting investment in and the growth...

On May 27, 2019, the Japanese government published amended rules[1] that aim to tighten the regulatory requirements applicable to foreign direct investment (tai nai chokusetsu toshi or FDI)

The new Enterprise Bankruptcy Law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) (Bankruptcy Law) was adopted on August 27, 2006 and will take effect on June 1, 2007, superseding the 1986-enacted Enterprise Bankruptcy Law (Trial) 1986, governing the bankruptcy of State-owned Enterprises . The Bankruptcy Law offers for the first time a unified regime applicable to all types of enterprises in China and also provides a more robust and detailed regime for enforcement of creditors’ claims. We discuss below

On June 30, 2017, the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court (the "Wuhan Court") issued a decision recognizing and enforcing a civil money judgment issued by the Los Angeles Superior Court arising out of...

Draft of New Guidelines Published. On June 8, 2023, the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry ("METI"), a Japanese government agency tasked with promoting economic vitality in the private sector...

On 25 July 2018, the European Commission ("the Commission") published its decision on the Altice/PT Portugal gun jumping case. The Commission concluded that various contractual clauses allowed Altice N.V. ("Altice") ...